Maxime de la Rocheterie on Marie-Antoinette

"She was not a guilty woman, neither was she a saint; she was an upright, charming woman, a little frivolous, somewhat impulsive, but always pure; she was a queen, at times ardent in her fancies for her favourites and thoughtless in her policy, but proud and full of energy; a thorough woman in her winsome ways and tenderness of heart, until she became a martyr."

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

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Thursday, July 21, 2016

The 2016 platform reiterates the GOP's support for a Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, clarifying that the 14th
Amendment protects unborn children from being deprived of life, liberty
of property without due process of law. That plank has been part of
every Republican platform since 1980, when the Grand Old Party met in
Detroit to nominate Ronald Reagan for president.

However, the party made history by encouraging states to defund
Planned Parenthood – the nation's largest abortion provider – by name,
as well as further penalizing the sale of fetal organs. The platform
reads:

We oppose the use of public funds to perform or promote abortion or
to fund organizations, like Planned Parenthood, so long as they provide
or refer for elective abortions or sell fetal body parts rather than
provide healthcare. We urge all states and Congress to make it a crime
to acquire, transfer, or sell fetal tissues from elective abortions for
research, and we call on Congress to enact a ban on any sale of fetal
body parts. In the meantime, we call on Congress to ban the practice of
misleading women on so-called fetal harvesting consent forms, a fact
revealed by a 2015 investigation. We will not fund or subsidize
healthcare that includes abortion coverage.

The GOP also backs efforts “to exclude abortion providers from
federal programs such as Medicaid and other healthcare and family
planning programs so long as they continue to perform or refer for
elective abortions or sell the body parts of aborted children.”

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